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...starters, Susan, 16, the eldest of the Polgars, finished just one victory away from accumulating enough points to achieve grand-master status. Tied with Sweden's Pia Cramling, 22, as the world's second-ranked female chess player (behind the Soviet Union's Maya Chiburdanidze, 25), the teenager soundly thrashed six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne, 37, on her way to a respectable showing of 25th in the top section of the tournament. Sister Sophia, 11, meanwhile swept to second place in the expert category. Finally, the baby of the family, Judith, a pudgy, self-confident nine-year-old, astounded...
...Maya Angelou...
This is a book with bite. Dentistry: an Illustrated History by Malvin E. Ring, D.D.S. (Abrams; 320 pages; $75) ranges through time and twinges from the Maya Indians, who used tooth implants almost 1,400 years ago, to the latest microelectric techniques. What might have been a waiting-room time killer becomes instead a lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor...
...order to retain the "A-Crowd," Rudolf adheres to his "Most Advanced Yet Acceptable" (MAYA) concept, calculating apparently that the truly trendy will dig the most outrageous nightclub they can find, up to a certain point. "It makes you go just as far as you can go and still have a following," he says...
Artifacts from prehistoric and historic cultures including Europe's Paleolithic and Iron Age cultures are housed here. Currently, the Peabody is showing exhibits of North American Indian basketry, Maya Culture, and the American Southwest. There is also a room of Melanesian artifacts...